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Author Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941-

Title The poetry of Pathos : studies in Virgilian epic / Gian Biagio Conte ; edited by S.J. Harrison
Published Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Contents Introduction / Stephen Harrison -- The Virgilian paradox : an epic of drama and pathos -- Anatomy of a style : enallage and the new sublime -- Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics : once again -- The strategy of contradiction : on the dramatic form of the Aeneid -- Defensor Vergilii : Richard Heinze on Virgil's epic technique -- Towards a new exegesis of Virgil : reconsiderations and proposals -- The meeting of stylistics and textual criticism -- Proems in the middle
Summary A collection of essays on Virgil's Aeneid by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared to be debased or exhausted. - ;This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a co
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and indexes
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Subject Virgil. Aeneis.
Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation
Virgil. Georgica
SUBJECT Virgil fast
Aeneis (Virgil) fast
Georgica (Virgil) fast
Subject POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Gedichten.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Harrison, S. J
Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941- Virgilio, l'epica del sentimento. English
Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941- Virgilio, il genere e i suoi confini. Selections. English
ISBN 9780191536892
019153689X
9780191713262
0191713260
9786611154455
6611154450
1281154458
9781281154453
Other Titles Virgilio, l'epica del sentimento. English